A construction of the Gleason space
We prove an analogue to Dordal’s result in P.L. Dordal, A model in which the base-matrix tree cannot have cofinal branches, J. Symbolic Logic 52 (1980), 651–664. He obtained a model of ZFC in which there is a tree -base for with no branches yet of height . We establish that this is also possible for using a natural modification of Mathias forcing.
Let G be a countably infinite group. We show that for every finite absolute coretract S, there is a regular left invariant topology on G whose ultrafilter semigroup is isomorphic to S. As consequences we prove that (1) there is a right maximal idempotent in βG∖G which is not strongly right maximal, and (2) for each combination of the properties of being extremally disconnected, irresolvable, and nodec, except for the combination (-,-,+), there is a corresponding regular almost maximal left invariant...
We introduce the notion of a coherent -ultrafilter on a complete ccc Boolean algebra, strengthening the notion of a -point on , and show that these ultrafilters exist generically under . This improves the known existence result of Ketonen [On the existence of -points in the Stone-Čech compactification of integers, Fund. Math. 92 (1976), 91–94]. Similarly, the existence theorem of Canjar [On the generic existence of special ultrafilters, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 110 (1990), no. 1, 233–241] can...
This note establishes that the familiar internal characterizations of the Tychonoff spaces whose rings of continuous real-valued functions are complete, or -complete, as lattice ordered rings already hold in the larger setting of pointfree topology. In addition, we prove the corresponding results for rings of integer-valued functions.
We show that, under CH, the corona of a countable ultrametric space is homeomorphic to . As a corollary, we get the same statements for the Higson’s corona of a proper ultrametric space and the space of ends of a countable locally finite group.